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Symmetrix Fibre Channel with Qlogic HBAs on Linux Hosts
Fabric Configurations
7. Save the settings for the HBA installed in the host and exit
Fast!Util.
8. Plug the fiber cables back into the HBA(s) in the host and reboot.
9. Upon rebooting, press
ALT-Q when prompted to enter the
Fast!Util menu.
10. From the Fast!Util Options menu, select Fibre Disk Utility.
11. Follow the instructions from Verifying the Disk Media on page 44 to
ensure that the HBA has been reset and can now access all of the
Symmetrix devices.
12. Exit out of the Fibre Disk utility and reboot the host.
13. Once the Symmetrix devices are partitioned and labeled
appropriately, proceed with Creating and Mounting a File System
on page 75.
Creating and
Mounting a File
System
To create standard UNIX file systems under Linux, log in as root and
proceed as follows for each previously labeled device.
Create a New File
System
Once each Symmetrix disk device has been formatted, partitioned,
and labeled, a file system needs to be created in order to make the
partition usable. Use the mkfs command to create a file system.
For a single partition, use
mkfs /dev/sdb1.
You will be prompted to confirm the construction of a new file
system. Type
Y ENTER.
Create a Mount
Directory
Once the file system for each Symmetrix device has been created, a
mount directory for each device must be created.
To create a mount directory, use
mkdir /mnt/sdb, where /mnt/sdb is
the complete path for the new file system.
By default, /mnt is created upon installation, but a separate directory can be
created in which to mount the devices’ file systems.
Mount the File System To mount each file system, enter a statement similar to the following:
mount -t ext2 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb
This will mount the raw device /dev/sdb1 onto the mount point
/mnt/sdb.
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